EDITORIAL
Ozgur Tufekci | Editor in Chief
Ozgur Tufekci is the founding Editor of the Magazine. He is also the founder and Director-General of CESRAN International, a UK-based think-tank (www.cesran.org), ranked among the world’s “Best Independent Think Tanks” and “Top Environment Policy Think Tanks”. He is the author of “The Foreign Policy of Modern Turkey: Power and the Ideology of Eurasianism” (I.B. Tauris, 2017). He is also Associate Professor of International Relations at Karadeniz Technical University, Turkey. You may reach him at oztufekci [at] cesran.org and follow him on Twitter @OzgurTufekci
Rahman Dag | Executive Editor
He obtained his BA from Istanbul Yeditepe University. And then he graduated from the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Studies, SOAS (School of Orient and African Studies) in London. He was awarded the Philosophy of Doctorate degree from Exeter University, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies in the field of Middle East Politics. In addition, he is one of the founding members of CESRAN International (www.cesran.org) and acting as the head of Cesran Turkey Desk and as book review editor of The Rest Journal (Journal of Politics and Development). He also works for Adıyaman University/ Turkey as Associate Professor since November 2014.
Emails: rahman.dag@cesran.org; rdag@adiyaman.edu.tr
South Asian Studies | Editor
Sharifullah Dorani completed his PhD on the US anti-terrorism war in Afghanistan and the ‘Greater Middle East’ at Durham University. His Master’s degrees and the undergraduate degree are from UCL and the University of Northampton in Law, International Human Rights, and Creative Writing. He is the author of ‘America in Afghanistan: Foreign Policy and Decision Making from Bush to Obama to Trump’, I.B. Tauris/Bloomsbury, 2019 (https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/america-in-afghanistan-9781784539986/). His first novel – provisionally entitled Little Moscow of Kabul – is due to be published in late-2020. He left Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover in 1996, returning frequently to carry out research. He lectures frequently on the history of US policy in the region and speaks fluently numerous regional languages, including Pashto, Dari/Farsi, Hindi, Urdu, Russian and English. Currently, he is South Asia and the Middle Eastern Editor at CESRAN International. He may be reached at sharifullah.durrani@cesran.org and follow him on Twitter @DrSDorani
Middle Eastern Studies | Editor
Rahman Dag obtained his BA from Istanbul Yeditepe University. And then he graduated from the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Studies, SOAS (School of Orient and African Studies) in London. He was awarded the Philosophy of Doctorate degree from Exeter University, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies in the field of Middle East Politics. In addition, he is one of the founding members of CESRAN International (www.cesran.org) and acting as the head of Cesran Turkey Desk and as book review editor of The Rest Journal (Journal of Politics and Development). He also works for Adıyaman University/ Turkey as an assistant professor since November 2014.
Emails: rahman.dag@cesran.org; rdag@adiyaman.edu.tr
Applied Economics | Editor
Hakan Uslu received his PhD degree at Applied Economics program of Auburn University, USA. He obtained a master degree from the Department of Economics at Auburn University, USA. He has been an assistant professor of economics at Adiyaman University, Turkey since 2017. His research mainly involves the application of econometric methods to economic and political phenomena. He has written about topics on political economics, industrial economics, and financial economics. He teaches microeconomics and mathematical economics. He is also working as area editor of the Political Reflection Magazine in Economics and can be reached at hakan.uslu [at] cesran.org
Interview Editors:
Ebru Birinci is a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Political Science at Lomonosov Moscow State University. She received her master’s degree from Karadeniz Technical University. She is an interview editor of the Political Reflection Magazine. Her research interests are foreign policy studies, Russian foreign policy, Russian-Israeli relations.
ebru.birinci [@] cesran.org
Emrah Atar is a PhD candidate and Teaching Assistant at the Global Development Institute, The University of Manchester. He holds a Master of Public Administration from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). Emrah is an Interview Editor of the Political Reflection Magazine. His focus topics and research interests are politics, governance, migration, policy development and management.
emrah.atar [@] manchester.ac.uk
Assistant Editors:
Ruhullah Afshar is an MA student in the Department of International Relations at Karadeniz Technical University.
Ceren Hakyemez is a PhD student in the Department of International Relations at Karadeniz Technical University.
